April 8, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Bay Ridge

Another gunpoint mugging

By Emily Lavin

for The Brooklyn Paper

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Gunpoint mug

Two thugs robbed a 25-year-old man at gunpoint on 62nd Street on April 4.

The victim told police that he was between 11th and 12th avenues at around 8:45 pm when the two suspects approached him. One pointed a gun at the victim before grabbing him and putting him in a headlock. The second man then rifled the victim’s pockets and found $50 and a cellphone.

Boy beaten

Two really bad men beat and robbed a teenage boy as he walked down Bay Ridge Avenue on April 1.

The 13-year-old victim told police that he walked past two men sitting on a building stoop at the corner of Fifth Avenue at around 5:45 pm. The men asked the boy for the time, and when the boy pulled out his phone to check, one of the men jumped up, grabbed the phone and punched him in the face. The two thugs then fled.

Knife job

Two masked men robbed a truck driver at knifepoint in broad daylight on April 6.

The 34-year-old victim told police that he had just made a delivery to a Third Avenue 99-cent store at around 1:45 pm. As he walked back to his vehicle, between 72nd and 73rd streets, the two men walked up to him, and one put a knife to his throat and demanded, “Open the door and give me all the money.”

The victim did as he was told, and the two men fled with more than $1,700.

Bye fi

A thief stole more than $4,200 worth of electronics from a Ridge Boulevard home on April 4.

The 45-year-old owner of the house, which is between 94th and 95th streets, told police that she’d left her home at around 11:30 am and returned home five hours later to find the front door frame cracked and three computers and a digital camera gone.

— Emily Lavin

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